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THICKNESS OF CLOUDS. 



Capt. H. Toynbec, of the London Meteorological Society, has 

 arrived at the conclusion that clouds of less than 2000 feet in thick- 

 ness are seldom accompanied by rain ; and if they are it is very 

 gentle, consisdng of minute drops. With a thickness of between 

 2,000 and 4,000 feet the size of the drops is moderate. With in- 

 creasing thickness comes increasing size of the drops, and at the 

 same time their temperature becomes lower, until, when the thick- 

 ness is greater than 6000 feet, hail is produced. 



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With this number we close our third volume. The W^est 

 American Scientist in entering upon its fourth volume hopes 

 to receive the continued support of its readers in both the literary 

 and financial departments. Many new contributors have promised 

 articles for the coming year. We shall probably illustrate more 

 freely, and other improvements we trust will appear in the Decem- 

 ber number. This month we lack time to prepare a more com- 

 plete number such as our readers have a right to expect, but we 

 trust they will excuse us in consideration of what we hold in store 

 for them. 



A GLANCE AT BOOKS. 



Natural Law in the Business World- Messrs. Lee and 

 Shepard, Boston, are about to issue a new and revised edition of 

 this valuable work, by Henry Wood, which has been very widely 

 and earnestly commended by the conservative press and the best 

 public sentiment of the country. This book makes a telling ap- 

 plication of the immutable principles and tendencies of natural 

 law to the live questions of political economy, including labor 

 problems, socialism, arbitration, economic legislation, wealth and 

 its distribution, panics and their causes, railroad consolidation, 

 corporations, and numerous other related and timely topics. Solid 

 and irreversible business principles are crystalized into an har- 

 monious and impregnable system, as distinguished from all artifi- 

 cial and fragmentary schemes of socialism, Henry Georgeism, 

 anarchism, and other ^'zsms^' of a pestilential character. All good 

 citizens and business men will be glad to have the wholesome 

 sentiments of this book widely disseminated as a partial antidote 

 for the floods of false and delusive theory which are being poured 

 out, especially among our foreign-born population. 



Pre-Glacial Man and the Aryan Race, a History of 

 Creation, and of the birthplace and wanderings of man in Central 

 Asia, from b. c. 32500 to b. c. 15000, with a History of the Aryan 

 Race, commencing b. c. 15000, their rise and progress, and the 



